| salad | 1. A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc, usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. "Leaves eaten raw termed salad." (I. Watts) 2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, especially. Chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad. <botany> Salad burnet, the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy. Origin: F. Salade, OIt. Salata, It. Insalata, fr. Salare to salt, fr. L. Sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Slaw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| word salad | A jumble of meaningless and unrelated words emitted by persons with certain kinds of schizophrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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